On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina) from the west coast of Sweden, with a checklist of species from the region 3171
Author
Calder, Dale R.
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Zootaxa
2012
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3171.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3171.1.1
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Rhizorhagium roseum
M. Sars
, in G.O.
Sars, 1874
Fig. 12
Rhizorhagium roseum
M. Sars
, in G.O.
Sars, 1874: 129
.—
Rees & Rowe, 1969: 10
.
Perigonimus roseus
.—
Lönnberg, 1902: 173
.—
Jäderholm, 1909: 46
, pl. 3, fig. 7.—
Jägerskiöld, 1971: 64
.
Type
locality.
Norway
:
Mangerfjord
,
Bognestrømmen
, 20 fm (
37 m
) (
Rees 1956b: 114
)
.
Museum material.
Kosterhavet,
58°53.093’N
,
11°05.668’E
,
20–30 m
,
09.ix.2010
, biological dredge,
R
/
V
Nereus
, two colonies, up to
5 mm
high, on stems of
Tubularia indivisa
and
Lafoea gracillima
, without gonophores,
ROMIZ
B3909.
Remarks.
Gonophores were lacking in studied material, but the trophosome of
Rhizorhagium roseum
M. Sars
, in G.O.
Sars, 1874
, with its stolonal habit, long hydrocaulus, thin pseudohydrotheca, single tentacular whorl, and nipple-shaped hypostome, as well as its reddish to pinkish hydranths that bend over when disturbed, is distinctive among hydroids in the biogeographic region. A detailed account of this small species, from boreal and subarctic waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, has recently been given by
Schuchert (2007)
.
Rees (1956b)
examined
type
material of
Rhizorhagium roseum
and concluded from the original label that it was from “Bongnestrømmen” (Bognestrømmen) in the Mangerfjord,
Norway
. In addition to its occurrence on the west coast of
Sweden
(e.g.,
Jäderholm 1909
, as
Perigonimus roseus
),
R. roseum
has been reported from the Oslofjord,
Norway
(
Christiansen 1972
).
Reported distribution.
West coast of
Sweden
.—Kosterfjord to Gullmarfjord (
Rees & Rowe 1969
).
Elsewhere.—North Atlantic from the Barents and White seas to western Scotland in Europe (
Schuchert 2007
), and from northern Foxe Basin in the Canadian Arctic to Buzzard’s Bay,
Massachusetts
, in eastern North America (
Calder 2004
); eastern North Pacific from
Alaska
to southern Vancouver Island (
Fraser 1944
, as
Garveia groenlandica
;
Brinckmann-Voss 1996
).